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1. Comments are still disabled though I am thinking of enabling them again.

2. There are now several extra pages - Poetry Index, Travel, Education, Childish Things - accessible at the top of the page. They index entires before October 2013.

3. I will, in the next few weeks, be adding new pages with other indexes.

Monday, 29 September 2014

It's... er... a joke

Appearing in my newsfeed on Facebook because a friend had commented on it was a
claim that Nigel Farage had said "What we need is a fairer system that
involves employers paying what they want, being able to sack people when
they want and for whatever reason they want." I have absolutely no time
time for Mr Farage but the quote seemed suspiciously unlikely. Sure
enough it took me a whole five seconds to source it to NewsThump - a
satirical website which has its most recent story (at the time
of writing) an item saying Tesco will be selling limited edition cans
of beans at one million pounds a can. On Newsthump (31 December 2012)
it's put into the mouth of Iain Duncan Smith along with the quote "we
need to encourage people off benefits and into mortuaries". Does no one these days have the critical faculties to spot a joke when they see it?
By all means criticise Mr Farage but criticise him for things he's said
and done, not for recycled jokes from a satirical website.